Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-16
THE WEST.

has teen declared OF. 1t was decided TO
| drop the demand for fifteen per cent
| raise.
THoMAsF. CAKES, general manager OF the
| Northern Pacific railroad, has created some
! excitement in railroad circles by addressing
a communication to the Minnesota BOARD OF
Railroad Commissioners, claiming that they
had no Jurisdiction over his line. The
ground he takes is that the road was lncor-
| porated by act Of Congress
| THERE was cloud burst during the
| storm at Grafton, O., on the 5th, causing
| washout of fifty feet on the Cleveland,
Lorraine & Wheeling railroad.
| A DISPATCH from Nogales, A T., OF the
| 9th, says that the copper reduction works
| of the Compagnie Bolo, at Santa Rosalia,
| have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $500 600.
| SMALLPOX was reported spreading ID Chi
| cago The disease first appeared in an ltal-
| ian family the children minglfng with other
/ children, thus spreading the contagion.
A SPECIAL ran into an open switch at
Gest street. Cincinnati, recently. The th1r-
| teen persons on board escaped by jumping.
Damage, $4,000
THE thirty-eighth annual convention OF
the American Medical Association as
sembled in Chicago on the 9TH. The at
tendance of physicians and surgeons from
all parts of the country was unexpectedly
large.
REPORTS from California show that the
northern half of the State will have the
same wheat yield as last year, while in the
San Joaquin valley and the southern part
the yield will not be over fifty per cent.
REUBEN DAILY, of Indiana, formerly a
newspaper man, has been appointed steno-
grapher to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
THE national convention of chiefs and
commissioners of bureaus OF labor statistics
was held in Madison, Wis, on the Sth.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence Unions OF
Ohio and Indiana held conventions on the
Sth. -
THE strike of the Detroit stove molders
has been declared off, the mems terms hav-
ing been acceded to.
CHARLES SPENCER. one of the best known
men in Dakota, was indicted recently by
the grand jury at Pierre on the charge OF
cattle stealing.
A LAD named Hentz died from tetanus at
Grand Crossing, near Chicago, recently.
Some two weeks ago he ran an old nail in
his foot and lockjaw set in. The lads teeth
were closed so tightly that he literally
starved to death.
JACOB WELT, proprietor of an extensive
barrel factory at Cleveland, O., has as
signed. Assets, $4,000; liabilities, $50, 900.
In the Michigan Senate the Committee
on Railroads reported adversely on the
had already passed the House.
AT a meeting of Western passenger
agents at Chicago on the Sth. il was decd
ed not to issue any more land explorers
tickets until the Interstate Commission
gives some clearer ruling.
THE Quincy Rock House and Drum House
at Houghton, Mich, were struck by light
ming recently and totally destroyed. Loss,
10000.
An IF hn fTon limo fn1
lines in San Francisco it was decided to
obtain the authority of Eastern trunk lines
to meet such of the Canadian Pacific and
Pacific Mail rates as might be deemed ad-
visable.
SECRETARY BRENNoeK, of the Chicago
Carpenters Union, denied that the men
proposed to strike.
HoKE, the Peoria Qll.) embezzler, has
been sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary. He will appeal
A RUSSIAN inventor named Smolineoff,
living in San Francisco, claims to have dis
covered a method of using nitro glycerine
projectiles. 1t will be officially tested.
THE dome of the great Lick observatory
at Mount Hamilton, Cal, was finished on
the 9th.
A CRoToN ID. To special Of the 9Th says:
IAN artesian we'll broke out last night and
is now flowing quite stream. The same
d
seam or crack in the earth. The crack In
the earth runs under the Episcopal Church
and may cause considerable DAMAGE
THE Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road
has sold to David Sinton and Thomas J.
Emery its common stock of the Dayton &
Michigan road, of which it held the control
ing interest. The price was 81, 600, O00 The
Dayton & Michigan is al miles long, run
ming from Dayton to Toledo, o. 1t is leased
in perpetuity to the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton.
THE three-masted schooner Sunrise, of
Chicago, from Buffalo, having cargo of
$40 tons of coal, ran ashore in fog the
other night at Willamette north of Chica-
go. Her crew reached shore safely.
THE Findlay, O., natural gas boom cele-
bration attracted about 80, 600 visitors to
that place recently. A feature of the cele-
bration was the laying of several founda-
ton stones for manufacturing enterprises